On Tuesday, Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that dislodged a well-entrenched United States-backed monarchy. With the blood, honor, courage and determination of an entire nation, Iran’s sovereignty was restored, ending decades of national humiliation following the 1953 coup engineered by the US and British secret services. “The revolution lives on,” President Mahmud Ahmadinejad stated last week, providing yet another reminder to Western pundits that their sounding of the death bells for the Islamic revolution have been premature.
